Port Lihou Island
Port Lihou Island (Yeta) |
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Landsat image with Port Lihou Island (center) | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean ( Torres Strait ) | |
Archipelago | Thursday Islands | |
Geographical location | 10 ° 43 '36 " S , 142 ° 14' 10" E | |
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length | 3.3 km | |
width | 1.8 km | |
surface | 3.98 km² | |
Highest elevation | 70 m | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Map of the Torres Strait Islands |
Port Lihou Island , also known as Yeta or Yata , is an uninhabited Australian island in the south of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago . It is located in the Port Lihou - bay directly off the southeast coast of Prince of Wales Iceland , separated from it completely by a wide but only a few meters watercourse. Around 400 meters off the southwest coast is the much smaller Packe Island .
Port Lihou Island, with a length of about 3.3 km and a maximum width of 1.8 km, is densely forested. The island belongs geographically to the group of Thursday Islands and administratively to the Inner Islands , an island region in the Torres Shire administrative district of Queensland .